The US has used, and continues to use, every single form of oppression of its own people that we claim to oppose elsewhere around the world.
‘Protesters as terrorists’: growing number of states turn anti-pipeline activism into a crime
Conservative lawmakers have put forward laws criminalizing protests in at least 18 states since 2017 that civil liberties advocates say are unconstitutional
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It makes you wonder how long the “Land of the Free” can hold that claim before its citizens are crushed by debt or climate change.
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We’re already long past any real claim to being any such thing, but it’s so deeply embedded in the American myth that it’s a largely self-sustaining claim, at this point.
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